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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage: Martin Luther. RANDOM TIDBITS Cakes have played a part of weddings all through history. The Romans shared a plain cake of flour, salt and water during the wedding ceremony itself, as Native...

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person: Mignon McLaughlin. RANDOM TIDBITS It is customary, near the end of the reception, for the single female guests to gather around the bride who will throw her bouquet over her shoulder for one of them to...

September 26 Events 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus. 715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne. 1212 – Golden Bull of Sicily is certified as an hereditary royal title...

September 25 Events 275 – In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor. 303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is ******** in Amiens, France. 1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking Age...

September 24 Events 622 – Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina. 1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline. 1645 – Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army...

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more: Amy Tan. Your random dose of trivia for the day! In 2002, a Guangzhou sporting goods company opened a factory to make 100,000 ping-pong tables annually. *** The red granite obelisk on the Victoria...

September 23 Events 1122 – Concordat of Worms. 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. 1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city. 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure...

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Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life...: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. RANDOM...

September 22 Events 66 – Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the ***** in the Battle of Saule. 1499 – Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state. 1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over...

Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach: James Beard. RANDOM TIDBITS The first barbecuers may well have been prehistoric cavemen. Anthropologists...

September 21 Events 1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo are ****** in Battle of St. Matthew's Day. 1435 – An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the England and Burgundy in Hundred Years'...

I get mail; therefore I am: Scott Adams. RANDOM TIDBITS In 1775, Benjamin Franklin was appointed first Postmaster General by the Continental Congress. *** Forty six percent of the world’s card and letter mail volume is handled by the United States Postal Service...

September 20 Events 451 – The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius's victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat, is considered to be the largest battle in the ancient world. 1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem. 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva...

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard: Jesse Owens RANDOM TIDBITS > > Created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914, the Olympic flag > contains five interconnected rings on a white background. > The five rings symbolize the five significant...

September 19 Events 335 – Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. 1356 – In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French. 1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the ****** of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion. 1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to...

Language is the ***** of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow: Oliver Wendell Holmes RANDOM TIDBITS > The "invention" of language is not known except for > references in the Bible. It is not known what language Adam > and Eve spoke. The first mention of different...

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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry: Gustave Flaubert. RANDOM TIDBITS - PRODUCTS NAMED FOR REAL PEOPLE Duncan Hines - While working as a traveling sales representative for a Chicago printing company during the 1930s and 40s, Duncan...

September 17 Events 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought. 1462 – The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War. 1577 – The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots. 1630 – The city of Boston...

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics: Bill Vaughan. RANDOM TIDBITS Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and...

^Has a cool screename to go with his sense of humor. Do I really look like John Malkovich?

September 16 Events 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers. 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights...

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard: Jesse Owens RANDOM TIDBITS Created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914, the Olympic flag contains five interconnected rings on a white background. The five rings symbolize the five significant continents and...

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^is good at complimenting people.

Re: Compliment thread ^Is one of the few annoying people who I like.

September 15 Events 668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy. 921 – At Tetin Saint Ludmila is ******** at the command of her ********-in-law. 1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain. 1584 – San Lorenzo del...

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you: Bruce Lee RANDOM TIDBITS Swimming as an organized activity goes back as far as 2500 B.C. in ancient Egypt and later in ancient Greece, Rome, and Assyria. In Rome and Greece, swimming...

Re: Compliment thread ^Has a hot avatar, and is always interested in learning.... I didn't see it when I searched for "Compliment thread," but cannot we do both?

Compliment thread This could be fun. In this thread you should compliment the person above you. Every new post is about the person who posted above you.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them: Andre Gide RANDOM TIDBITS In 1832, U.K. representative B.H. Hodson, while living in Nepal, claimed to have seen the Abominable Snowman ****** his servants. Hodson described the creature as a "wild man ... covered in long...

September 14 Events 81 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his ******* Titus. 786 – Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his ******* al-Hadi. 1180 – Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan. 1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal...

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September 13 Events 509 BC – The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September. 122 – The building of Hadrian's Wall begins. 533 – General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North...

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost: George Schultz. 

RANDOM TIDBITS Objects used for a game similar to bowling, which date from 5200 BC, were found in the tomb of a young Egyptian boy. In the third and fourth centuries, bowling in Europe...

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Events 9 – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. 1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 – Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the...

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence: James Bryce. RANDOM TIDBITS In 1628, William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the ***** in *******, describing how ***** is pumped throughout the body by...

September 8 Events 70 – Roman ****** under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland. 1331 – Stefan Dušan declares...

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others: Albert Camus. RANDOM TIDBITS Ascot, a village in Berkshire, England, is the home of a famous annual ***** race. During the 1700s, people who attended the races wore a wide, loosely tied...

September 7 Events 70 – A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem. 1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf. 1776 – World's first submarine ******: the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the...

The ****** shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other...

September 6 Events 3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and ***** the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast. 1492...

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out: James Bryant Conant. RANDOM TIDBITS Turtle fossils have been found linking them to the Triassic Period, about 230 million years ago. *** Turtles are present in the mythology of many civilizations. The Chinese, for...

Style is the perfection of a point of view: Richard Eberhart. RANDOM TIDBITS The term “haute couture” is French. Haute means “high” or “elegant.” Couture literally means “sewing,” but has come to indicate the business of designing, creating, and selling custom-made, high fashion women's...

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September 5 Events 1590 – Alexander Farnese's army ****** Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. 1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers. 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10,000...